Re: don't be *that* guy

I've been playing today by myself. most of the time surrounded by complete noobs sometimes another decent player on my team. inevitably that one other decent player has a power weapon in their hands the whole match.. Why would you do that against noobs. Let them have the powerweapons. odds are you're going to kill them before they can figure out how to use it anyway.. Right?

If you're in a party make a pact to play with harder to use guns. give them a sporting chance or they're going to leave. (unless of course you're so terrible that you can't kill them any other way) I am not the best player in the world and I can outshoot them with a pistol.. quickly.

Don't be the jerk.

I completely disagree.

The whole objective of playing pubs is to win and catering or even helping the opposing team during a match makes absolutely no sense. If complete noobs get stomped by a party or complete randoms that are decent, its completely fair. The "decent" player that you were matched with just saw an opportunity to rack a lot of kills by spamming Pw's and owning noobs. Is he a jerk for doing that? No. Of course it would be frustrating or annoying for the noobs but its apart of the game, and these kinds of matches happens every other game, they just have to adapt to it. It's apart of the learning curve and if they choose to leave the match then they would never learn how to adjust their playing style to those situations.

The better choice is to give noobs tips via messages AFTER the game. I sometimes turn dlc off, own the noobs completely, then message them after the match to tell them what they did wrong and I tell them which boosters can be extremely helpful. Im not going to help the opposing team in any way during a match but I certainly help them after the match has finished.

It has nothing to do with being a "jerk" its just decent players capitalizing on situations that are completely fair.

Re: don't be *that* guy

im surprised that, for some people, the fun factor in this game is reaching the highest score.

even if it involves boosting with easy kills.

what i really like is how to kill the enemies and not how many

in UC2 i hated being outnumbered (say 5V3 or less) and the enemies would take all the power weapons. that seriously annoyed me.

Simply because a game/match that is unbalanced cannot be a good game/match. Most people dont mind this though, if they have the upper hand.

the same logic applies here.

what i find the most satisfying is when a kill is hard to get, or at least when i feel i somehow deserved it and i just dont get that against someone who doesnt really know how to play.

(although luring them to their death in a funny way is ok from time to time i guess )

in the same way, I like being shot at and figuring out an escape plan quickly against an experienced player, it's more fun beating someone because i played better than because he had no clue what was going on and/or had weaker guns

Re: don't be *that* guy

The whole objective of playing pubs is to win and catering or even helping the opposing team during a match makes absolutely no sense. If complete noobs get stomped by a party or complete randoms that are decent, its completely fair. The "decent" player that you were matched with just saw an opportunity to rack a lot of kills by spamming Pw's and owning noobs. Is he a jerk for doing that? No. Of course it would be frustrating or annoying for the noobs but its apart of the game, and these kinds of matches happens every other game, they just have to adapt to it. It's apart of the learning curve and if they choose to leave the match then they would never learn how to adjust their playing style to those situations.

The better choice is to give noobs tips via messages AFTER the game. I sometimes turn dlc off, own the noobs completely, then message them after the match to tell them what they did wrong and I tell them which boosters can be extremely helpful. Im not going to help the opposing team in any way during a match but I certainly help them after the match has finished.

It has nothing to do with being a "jerk" its just decent players capitalizing on situations that are completely fair.

Re: don't be *that* guy

I have a "Big Cash" loadout with No PWs and No Nades. I use it when the other team has 3 or more noobs. I'm like $150k away from hitting 5th legacy 75, so I won't really "need" the money anymore, but I'll keep using it to make it fair.

I don't want to frustrate all the new players any worse than they probably are by getting easy kills.

Re: don't be *that* guy

I've been playing today by myself. most of the time surrounded by complete noobs sometimes another decent player on my team. inevitably that one other decent player has a power weapon in their hands the whole match.. Why would you do that against noobs. Let them have the powerweapons. odds are you're going to kill them before they can figure out how to use it anyway.. Right?

If you're in a party make a pact to play with harder to use guns. give them a sporting chance or they're going to leave. (unless of course you're so terrible that you can't kill them any other way) I am not the best player in the world and I can outshoot them with a pistol.. quickly.

Don't be the jerk.

I completely disagree.

The whole objective of playing pubs is to winand catering or even helping the opposing team during a match makes absolutely no sense. If complete noobs get stomped by a party or complete randoms that are decent, its completely fair. The "decent" player that you were matched with just saw an opportunity to rack a lot of kills by spamming Pw's and owning noobs. Is he a jerk for doing that? No. Of course it would be frustrating or annoying for the noobs but its apart of the game, and these kinds of matches happens every other game, they just have to adapt to it. It's apart of the learning curve and if they choose to leave the match then they would never learn how to adjust their playing style to those situations.

The better choice is to give noobs tips via messages AFTER the game. I sometimes turn dlc off, own the noobs completely, then message them after the match to tell them what they did wrong and I tell them which boosters can be extremely helpful. Im not going to help the opposing team in any way during a match but I certainly help them after the match has finished.

It has nothing to do with being a "jerk" its just decent players capitalizing on situations that are completely fair.

But don't you find winning in a rout to be really boring? Wouldn't you rather have a challenge? The OP isn't advocating for throwing the match. Just for leveling the playing field a bit.

You said in an earlier post in this thread "no mercy for noobs". But it's not simply about doing them a favor. It's about making the match more fun for yourself. Wouldn't playing a match where you handicap yourself a bit against significantly inferior competition be more fun for you than mowing down a bunch of noobs like so many blades of grass?